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Matchmakers 2.0 (2011)

by Debora Geary(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Fireweed Publishing

review 1: I read this on the "read ALL the Debora Geary books" principle, because I love her Modern Witch series and its spinoffs. This isn't in the same setting and has completely new characters. In fact, it isn't in the same genre; no fantasy here, only romance (and humour). I enjoyed it anyway, if not as much as her main series.Like most novellas, it would benefit from being filled out a little more, maybe even to novel length, but what there is is good. I found the humour actually funny (always a plus), and the characters rang true, as did the clueless company making bad decisions. There was some nice interplay between he cynicism of the main character and the cheerful optimism of her friend and co-worker, a New Agey type who wasn't vapid and ineffectual, but had her own kind of... more strength and even wisdom. I liked all the main characters, in fact (Debora Geary's great skill is creating likeable characters, so we care about what happens to them).The reason for three stars? I was left wanting more. With another couple of complications, it would make a four-star novel.
review 2: What a pleasure it was to read this novella after some of the other crap I've read lately.Matchmakers 2.0 tells the tale of Mick and her matchmaking team. They all have different approaches to getting the job done but it seems to work for their matches.Mick, who studied guppy mating habits, is the team leader. She is a young woman who can't seem to find a date for herself.Miri and Derrick are her team. Miri depends on astrology. Derrick, a likable geek, always wants new algorithms to make matches.Mick loses a bet with her best friend, Jazie, and must put her profile in the pool. Her match with Sam might just work.The match of Hazel and George was a cute sidenote.I thoroughly enjoyed this light and happy story. I'll be looking for more of the "Novel Nibbles" quick reads by this author.A note on the Kindle edition: Someone actually edited this story. I don't think there was an error in the entire book. That is absolutely appreciated. So many ebooks are riddled with errors it made reading this one, so well done, a joy. less

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